Nadia Owusu is Associate Director for Learning and Equity at Living Cities. Through her work at Living Cities, she has been working to figure out how to best address issues of racial and economic equity for communities across the country. She has done this work both...

Sam Gill is the Vice President for Communities and Impact and Senior Adviser to the President at the Knight Foundation. The Knight Foundation supports some of the most interesting community work in the entire country. Gill leads much of this work and is always looking...

Candi CdeBaca is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Project VOYCE. She has been able to build a powerful organization focused on empowering young people and trusting them to create change. Her work as an organizer shows the power to be found in bringing people...

Virginia Hanusik is a photographer and the manager of climate change initiatives at the Architectural League of New York. Her work showcases communities threatened by climate change. She partners with others to provide a reference point for the impending threat of...

Nick Tilsen is the founding Executive Director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation and is now helping build the NDN Collective. During his tenure, Thunder Valley CDC has done some of the most interesting and innovative community building work ever...

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